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Wednesday, October 12, 1949.
MAROON AND GOLD
PAGE THREE
I'm Telling You
By ROCCO SILEO
The Intramural Touch Football
season has opened with a bang,
and early games give indications
of far more interest and dompeti-
tion fhan in the past years. To
date games have been played at
the College Park, thus creating a
more competitivie atmosphere than
in the past.
The pre-season favorites appear
to be South Dormitory’s defend
ing championship team, an up-
and-coming aggregation from
East Dormitory and the sciapping
outfit from the Vets’ Court. South
opened with a smashing 26 to 0
victory over a potentially power
ful I.T.K. club a^id ti jn ran over
North-North 27 to 0 to extend its
consecutive victory string to thir
teen over a two-year period.
Intramural prophets, however,
are predicting that the lads from
across the tracks can expect plen-
ly of trouble from East and the
Vets’ Court. At this writing East
was sporting vii^tories over the
Oak-Carlton House and I.T.K.,
while the Vets’ Court aggregation
had posted an easy win over ■ the
Cedar Lodge-Club House combi
nation. _
1949 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Elon 80, Edenton Marines 0.
Elon 33, A. C. C. 0.
Elon §, Appalachian 14.
Elon 33, ECTC 7.
Eemaining Gamm:
Oct. 14.—Newberry, home.*
Oct. .—Catawba, there.*
Nov. 12.—Higrh Point, home.*
Nov. 12.—Len.-Rhyne, there.*
Nov. 24.—Guilford, Greens
boro.
(*—Night Games).
Latest reports have Chips Cha-
balko, known in Norfolk as Rob
ert Ward, back at hiS home in the
seaport city after an unsuccessful
visit to Johns Hopkins in Balti
more. The popular athlete, suf
fering from a rare virus disease,
is now engaged in the most im
portant battle of his poung life.
As a participant in varsity bas
ketball and golf at Elon last year,
Chabalko was a gay and reckless
star, whose rtatural ability would
have carried him to 'greater
heights had he had more seri
ousness about him. But that’s
Chips Chabalko’s w?ay of life,
clean, gay and carefree, and we’d
all like to see the popular athlete
rally back to health in that fash
ion so characteristic of him.
So, why don’t you drop him a
line today? His spirits must be
dampened, and the will to win his
most difficiilt contest must re
main on high if this fellow stu
dent of yours and mine is to re
gain the health and pleasures of
life which he deserves the same
as you and I. A(Mress letters to
Robert Ward, 150 Haven Drive,
Norfolk, Ya,
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Tag-Football
Season Has
Fine Opening
By GEORGE STANLEY
The touch-football season is un
derway, and the 1948 champions
f-rom South Dorm have served no
tice that they are out to retain
Wieir title. They h^^e already
overpowered two opponents by
scores of 26 to 0 and 27 to 0, the
victims being I.T.K. and North-
North.
Returning to spark the unde-
feated team is Ernie Kluttz, who
was an All-Intramural back last
season. He has turned in several
long runs already in the young
season and has been on the pass
ing end of several touchdowns,
which resulted from aerial heaves
to such able receivers as Larry
Gaither and Bill Hopkins, both
named as ends on the Maroon and
'Gold’s All-Intramural outfit.
Rounding out the South combi
nation are Charlie Gibson, who
has starred in early games, Len
Fesmire, Rocco Sileo, Dave IVfen-
dy, Charlie Bishop, Phil Cothran,
Bob Smithwick, Dock Herring and
Clarence Crosby. New pliers
showing up well in early games
are Bob Taylor, J. C. Williams
and Henry Borneman, who played
varsity football at E.C.T.C. in 1946
and 1947.
Other teams undefeated at this
writing are East Dorm and Vets’
Court. East defeated I.T.K. 6 to
0 on some brilliant runnisig by
Bill Rakes, who returned a punt
70 yards for the^only score of the
game. Other standouts in that
game were Max Littlejohn, Bill
Winstead, Speck Harper and Ne
ville Cooper.
Walter Temple led Vets’ Court
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Christians To Meet Newberry Friday
South Carolina Indians
To Offer Strong Team
THEY LEAD CHRISTIAN GRID WARRIORS
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NAMED LEADER
FOR "E" CLUB
Pete Marshbum, junior foot
ball star, has just been elected
president of the “E” Men’s Club
and will direct the activities of
Elon’s lettered athletes this
year.
The nomination of Marsh-
bum, who has two fine foot
ball seasons to his credit, came
about when Billy Cook, another
footballer, transferred to State
College after being elected to
the presidency last spring.
Other officers of the mono
gram wearers include Raleigh
Ellis, vice-president; Mai Mc
Cracken, secretary; and Gene
Hardy, treasurer.
Coach Jim Mallory is shown above talldng things over with Co-Captain Claude Gentry (left),
and Co-Captain Arnold Melvin (right). The three make up a tr iumvirate of leaders, who have
piloted the Elon Christians through a successful start on the 1949 football season. Both of the co
captains hail from Greensboro, and each is a senior and playing his final season under Maroon and
Gold colors.
Jay-Vee Team
To High Point
By JOE BRYSON
The Baby Christians will jour
ney to High Point tomorrow for
an engagement with the Little
Panthers on the gridiron, accord
ing to an announcement by Coach
Joe' Tomanchek. The Elon Jay-
Vees will be at top s*ength for
the encounter and will be gunning
for thejir second straight tri
umph.
They opened their 1949 season
two weeks ago with an impressive
13 to 0 victory over Lexington
High School, with Roselli, Jopce,
Fogleman and Lewis gaining the
t
offensive laurels.
Three other games remain on
the Jay-Vee schedule after the
High Point tilt, other games being
at Catawba, on October 20th, at
Fork Union Military Academy on
November 12th, and at Greenbriar
Military Academy on November
19th.
LEADING SCORER
NewbSry College, which pro
vides the opposition for Elon on
Friday night at the Burlington
Stadium, is no strange foe for the
Fighting Christians. In three
post-war engagements the Pal
metto Staters lead our Christians
by a two to one margin. In 1946
three costly fumbles gave New
berry three touchdowns and a 20
to 0 win. Then, at Elon in '47
the Fighting Christians ran over
the invaders statistically but
failed to score a touchdown as
they won 3 to 0 on Jim Huyett’s
22-yard field goal. Last- a
poor pass defense was mainly re
sponsible for Newberry’s 20 to 7
victory on her home field. Let’s
even the series this week!
BULLDOZER!!
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McSWAIN AT HIGH FALLS
James Thurso McSwain is now
coaching and teaching at High
Falls, N. C. McSwain held down
the initisfl sack for the Fighting
Christian nines of 1946 and 1947.
BILL BARGER
Bill Barger, sophomore speed
ster, has been one of the out
standing ground-gainers for the
Fighting Christians this year and
is leading the scoring for the first
three games. Barger hails from 1 the high school
Burlington Higft. ) Year” award.
Faculty Golf
Team In Meet
College football coaches, when
riding the alumni banquet circuit
after an unsuccessful season, al
most invariably come up with the
statement that they are “building
character.”
Elon’s faculty golf team came
up with a new version of the same
tale upon their return from an in
vasion of Wake Forest on Sfitur-
day, October 1st. When ques
tioned as to the results of their
engagements with the profesors
of Baptist Hollow, they merely de
clared, “We.had a good time.”
Faculty members who wore the
Maroon and Gold into oombat in
cluded Dr. E. P. Douglass, Prof.
J. L. Pierce, Prof. J. W. Barney,
Prof. R. F. Hunter, Dr. James
Hill, Dr. Jesse Dollar and Alumni
Secretary James F. Darden.
CAUSEY IS COACHING
Garland Causey, former line
coach and star gridder at Elon,
is having a very successful season
with his Goldsboro High School
team. He has an undefeated elev
en which sports a victory over
Fayetteville, last year’s state
championship eleven. Big Gar
land, brother of End Paul Causey,
has already been mentioned for
“Coach of the
Elon Dreams Of Unbeaten Season
Shattered By Appalachian Defeat
Elon Eleven
Wins Battle
From E.C.T.C.
By JOE SFIVEY
Black and threatening clouds,
vhich hung low over the campus
)f the East Carolina Teachers
College last Saturday afternoon,
ould not dispel (he gayety ol
'Home Coming Day.” It remain-
3d, instead, for a hard-driving
:;rew of Elon Christians to write
Tloom in black letters all over
",he faces of East Carolina stu-
ients and alumni.
It was the lightnmg-like thrusts
)f Elon's backs, it was the thun-
lerous roar of nard-'cbarging Elon
inemen, and finally it was the
lownpour of Elon touchdown
points that outdid the threaten-
mg elements chalked “ruin” in
capital letters all over the Pirate
lome-coming program. The de-
uge of Elon points was slow in
starting, but they came in a hur
ry after the second quarter start
ed, and the game’.s end fonnn
Sion triumphant by a 33 to 7
score.
The Pirates broka the scoring
ice first in the opening period
^hen Jack Denzie faked a reverse
)n a punt and scampered from
lis own 22-yard line to the Elon
fourteen, setting the stage for the
nitial score. The touchdown
came a moment later when Roger
Thrift lofted a pass to Denzie to
-each the goal. Banks added the
■!xtra point to give E.C.T.C. a 7 to
0 lead.
This lead, however, was short-
ived, for the Christians came
roaring back on the ground and
through the air, with Archie Brig-
■nan going the last 21 yards for
•he touchdown. Carroll Reid
booted the point to tie the game
It 7-all.
This was only the beginning. A
fast-tiring Pirate squad could go
lowhere against the bruising play
of the Elon line. Brigman re
turned a punt twenty-seven yards
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GIRLS' LEADER
History majors *id just plain
tudents of Elon College can see
-le Indian Wars reenacted right
jefore their eyes, and that from
I grandstand seat, when the New-
• erry Indians under "Big Chief”
jilly Laval invade the Burlington
.iemofial Stadium at 8 o'clock
riday night for the sole purpose
jf lifting the scalp of the Elon
Jhristians.
Tomahawks and blunderbusses
vere the chosen weapons when tho
colonial Christians battled the sav
age Indians of yore, but this time
Jie outcome will be settled with a
prolate and inflated spheroid of
polished pigskin, and Elon’s
Christians have been ljusy all the
vveek perfecting their techniques
>n the use of the cho.sen weapon.
There is little basis of compari
son between the competing
iorces, for the rivals have met no
common foe so far this season.
However, the Indians from the
flats of the Saluda River have met
,wo North State Conference elev-
ans in early games, and they have
shown pelnty of power in wia-
ning an even break in the two
engagements. They swamped
High Point 25 to 0 in the first of
the two games, but they fell 27 to
13 before the onsloughts of the
Lenoir-Rhyne Bears.
Coach Billy Laval, who former
ly directed the football destinies
of botil FurmTiTi University and
the University of South Carolina,
gained nationwide accKm when
he invented Furman’s famous
“Crazy-Quilt Formation” in the
late 1920’s, and he can be depend
ed upon to cut loose plenty of de
ception any time one of his teams
takes tne field.
Newberry will offer two of Iftie
better backs in small-college foot
ball in the persons of Hank Witt
and Billy Seigler, and Elon fans
may expect a treat in witnessing
the battle bj^ween these ^o In
dian warriors such Christian stars
as Billy Barger, Frank Tiigley,
Archie Brignfan, Pete Marshburn
and others.
FRED BIANGARDI
^ LAST GRID TITLE IN ’41
 The Fighting Christians last
won a North State Conference
championship in 1941 when
Coach Horace Hendrickson led a
powerful Elon eleven to an unde
feated season over six conference
foes. The Christians have copped' jg a Conference threat this year.
North State honors six times since he can be relied on for a
gain on almost any play.
By JOE SPIVEY
Elon’s dreams of an unbeaten
football, season were rudely shat
tered by a rebounding clan of Ap
palachian Mountaineers, who
smashed out a 14 to 0 victory over
the Fighting Christians in Bur-
ilington Stadium on Friday night,
^September 30th.
The Christians entered the
game undefea^J-dd and with im
pressive victories over the Eden
ton Marines and Atlantic Chris
tian, but the rough and ready
Mountaineers, stung by two con
secutive defeats In Conference
J. ..n play, weer not to be denied. Two
Fred Biangardi, the "Bay Shore ^
J touchdowns both on sustained
Bulldozer,” packs 215 pounds on
his stalwart frame and drives
through enemy lines like a cata
pult. He is a big reason why Elon
while the Indians of Catawba
have been “champs” seven times
to lead in that respect.
Only a
freshman, he should bid for high
laurels before graduation.
on
drives, and a pair of perfect
placements from the toe of Bill
Cross, accounted for the scores.
The biack-clad warriors from
the Blue Ridge struck early, driv
ing steadily down field after Her
man Bryson intercepted Pete
Marshburn’s pass on Elon’s first
play from scrimmage in the first
quarter. MiUs carried over from
the five after he and Cross had
alternated on drives into the Elon
line. A long pass from Mills to
Caskey featured the advance to
pay-dirt.
Excelent defense play by both
teams featured the game through
the remainder of the first half
and in the early minutes of the
second hafl, but the hopes of Elon
supporters were dashed in the
third period when Hook, of Appa
lachian, intercepted Fred Bian-
gardi’s pass on the 42-yard line
to set off a second expolsion of
Appalachian power. Passes to
Felton and Caskey, each good for
fourteen yards, stood out in this
drive, which was climaxed by
Mills’ four-yard sprint around end
for the score. Once more Cross
split the uprights with a place
ment.
The Christians showed flashes
of brilliance durnig the game, but
thep were never able to keep a
sustained momentum. The most
serious Elon threat followed Ap
palachian’s second score, when
R. K. Grapson returned the kick-
off twenty-six yards to the Elon
thirty-five. Archie Brigman chip
ped in a brilliant bit of running,
weaving and side-stepping and
he ran into his own interference
on the Mountaineer twenty-nine,
was moving into the clear when
Minutes later Grayson tossed a
pass to an Elon receiver in the
Appalachian end zone, but the ball
was caught and fumbled and
then recovered by the moutnain
men for a touchback.
The Christian backs cut loose
several times witii some nice runs,
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MISS RUBY ADAMS -
Miss Ruby Adams, who took
over leadership of girls’ athletics
with Brigman, Marshburn, and at Elon this yp-.r, has made plans
Biangardi outstanding, but an for an expanded program. Hail-
Elon passing attack proved sadly j ing from Riclimond, Va., she has
lackirt’ throughout the battle. The, had wide experience in the field
work of Gero, DeSimone and Mel-j of girls’ sports. First step in her
vin proved the brightest spot in j new program was the formation
some stubborn defensive line of a Women’s Athletic Asoscia-
play. I tion.
New Day For
Girls^ Sports
Looms Ahead
By JEANNE PITTMAN
A new day looms in girls’ sports
at Elon College, following the or
ganization of a new Women’s
Athletic Association. The group
was perfected under the direction
of Miss Ruby Adams, who assum
ed her duties as director of wo
men’s physical education this
year.
Miss Adams, with the help of
the Women’s Athletic Council
and the physical education ma
jors, has been working for several
weeks on a constitution for the
association. The group, which
has headquarters in Ladies’ Hall.
wUl replace the Girls’ Intramural
Cuncil. All girls in the college
will automatically become mem
bers.
The purpose of the group is to
create and promote more spirit
in women’s athetics on the camp
us, and already plans are in the
making for tournaments in botk
major and minor sports in 'each
season of the year. Individual
and team awards are planned,
and a point system will be formu
lated to govern such awards.
Archery and hockey are al
ready underway for the fall sea
son, and a complete set of new
hockey equipment has been pur
chased. Plans for the first hock
ey game will be made public soon.
Officers of the Women’s Ath
letic Association include Jeanne
Pittman, president; Gaynelle Dy
er, vice-president; Lacala Wil
kins, secretary; and Virginia Lat-
ta, treasurer. Miss Adams is fac
ulty sponosr.